Effective Date: November 27, 2023
1. Introduction
Welcome to Festey.com (“Festey”). This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of your personal information when you use our website.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Personal Information
We collect personal information that you provide to us voluntarily, including but not limited to your name, email address, postal address, phone number, payment details, and any other information you submit through our website.
2.2 Non-Personal Information
We automatically collect non-personal information such as device information, browser type, IP address, and other technical details through cookies and similar technologies.
3. Use of Information
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
- Providing and improving our services
- Personalizing your experience on Festey
- Processing transactions and fulfilling orders
- Communicating with you about updates, promotions, and relevant information
- Analyzing user behavior and trends to enhance user experience
- Responding to your inquiries and providing customer support
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
4.1 What are Cookies?
Festey uses cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to enhance your experience, analyze trends, and personalize content. By using Festey, you consent to the use of these technologies as described in our Cookie Policy.
4.2 Types of Cookies
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the operation of Festey
- Performance Cookies: Help us understand how users interact with Festey
- Functional Cookies: Enhance user experience by remembering preferences
- Targeting Cookies: Used to deliver personalized content and ads
4.3 Comment Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
5. Data Sharing
We may share your personal information with third-party service providers, affiliates, or business partners to assist with our operations, provide services, and improve our website. However, we do not sell or lease your information to third parties for direct marketing purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required by law.
This site utilises caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor.
Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
7. User Rights
You have the right to access, correct, update, or delete your personal information. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us at contact@festey.com.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Data Protection
We implement reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
9. California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Festey complies with CalOPPA requirements. California residents have the right to request information about the disclosure of their personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. To make such a request or to opt-out of such disclosures, please contact us at contact@festey.com.
10. Children’s Privacy
Festey is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 16, please contact us immediately at contact@festey.com.
11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Festey reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the updated policy on our website.
12. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
13. Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@festey.com
